Richardson school shuts down for swine flu
06:17 PM CDT on Monday, April 27, 2009
By SHERRY JACOBSON and TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News sjacobson@dallasnews.comthobbs@dallasnews.com
A Richardson elementary school was closed today after a student tested positive for swine flu. At least two other students at Canyon Creek Elementary School are suspected of having contracted the virus, school officials said. READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042809dnmetswineflu.117f21302.html
06:17 PM CDT on Monday, April 27, 2009
By SHERRY JACOBSON and TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News sjacobson@dallasnews.comthobbs@dallasnews.com
A Richardson elementary school was closed today after a student tested positive for swine flu. At least two other students at Canyon Creek Elementary School are suspected of having contracted the virus, school officials said. READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/042809dnmetswineflu.117f21302.html
1976: President Gerald Ford orders a nationwide vaccination program to prevent a swine-flu epidemic. Ford was acting on the advice of medical experts, who believed they were dealing with a virus potentially as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic.
The virus surfaced in February at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis told his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak, although not sick enough to skip a training hike. Lewis was dead with 24 hours.
The autopsy revealed that Lewis had been killed by "swine flu," an influenza virus originating in pigs. By then several other soldiers had been hospitalized with symptoms. Government doctors became alarmed when they discovered that at least 500 soldiers on the base were infected without becoming ill.
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